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name is crystal omes and with me is mike charming, co host saga. hello from counselor. i am sandra, twin over you. wonderful to have you with us. and hopefully we're going to inspire you. we bit climate heroes and innovative ideas to improve the environment. and also clean up nature. coming up on the show. we had to somalia wesley, a drought is making life difficult for the holidays. we also visit farmers in britain while reduced the amount of nathan cole's emitter and go to gambia, where researchers of teamed up with local people to collect climate data on the gambia river electron mobility. either starting to take off in africa, many new initiatives or looking for ways to expand these sustainable technology.

now in some city of and public transport is getting on board. while reason i looking in mobility couple solutions and kenya is really taking the blank by loans in climate friendly bolts. couple listed on leg victoria with as dusk falls, jared or to, you know, hits out on to lake victoria. since he started using an electric motor, he and his team no longer have to breathe im exhaust fumes. and it's not as noisy either. or jenny was one of the few fishermen here who started using an electric motor last year. it's much easier before he was constantly having to change gears or so. you have to be careful with stubborn. so when it rotates, it might ought of me get contact with her manila you this

1st tree all the gear saw removing. you'd have gum cumbersome reviews while you just do just automatic 3rd come up with them. he only has the electric motor and batteries on loan from a company called or sold them. every morning he returns the used batteries. and in the evening he receives a freshly charged set, a sober rents out the motors for the equivalent of around $38.00 euros a month. the batteries cost 7 years 50 per day. the dutch started a sober, had to do a lot of math to develop this business model. they saw the batteries and motors from germany. here in kenya, they have technicians who take care of the repairs and maintenance. they also offer a 24 hour service. if there are problems on the water, the fishermen have to call their rescue number that we can resolve on call. but

sometimes when their technical issues are not in a position to be solved during that time, we have to, we have to send out as to what to go, pull them back, or maybe change something, a component of the engine for that matter. the batteries are equipped with gps, track his so that the boats can be precisely located in case of emergency in and look at it. every new customer receives a free training session. so it depends on the crappy little in just a few days. they learned the most important things that reverse m theory well, then practice on the water to get used to the mazda. what will be unlocked? joshua luca has been involved since the start and understands what the fisherman need. the company lou louis lou will need to do some modification on only the list as of that, the inital. nobody cover. luka, our fishermen, most of them try to go find the stars. a silver is working to improve the situation,

but it's made contact with companies and kenya and uganda that refurbish used batteries. these could be rented out to the fisherman at a cheaper rate. in the 2nd life, batteries will make them more duleigh. so that also we might, we mimic the current operations of our customers. but if, if a customer want to go far, we give them more bodies, then we charge this rich, i'd feed, but, but to the lake you want to go far. we give you full batteries, you want to go shut our distance. we give you one or 2 batteries and you pay for what you are used. a sofa is the 1st company in kenya to invest in e, mobility on water, and one of the few in general on the countries e markets. electric mobility is still in its infancy here. there are some electric cars and buses and even some e bikes. warren,

on down gay rides, one of them. he's a member of a e. m. d, a, an association that provides a platform for the nearly 20 companies investing an emergency in kenya. the aim is to organize the lobby, urging politicians to promote electric vehicles. people are excited about immobility, endo petite, that he brings. it has tremendous environment of benefits. but unless we have the right incentives to allow for the final price and the value to the customer to be affordable than immobility might just as well be an illusion that will struggle. that gets towards around $25000.00, close on out on lake victoria every day. and many of them belong to kenyan fishermen who use combustion engines which pollute the lake and home the fish population. often the fishermen only get small silver sy printed from the lake. and there catch quotas have also declined in recent years. jared or tina is wife and

mother take care of the catch every morning. first drawing it and then selling it as quickly as possible. the fish are the main source of income for the family of 12 . they also use the money to pay the school fees for their, for children. and they've even managed to build a 2nd boat. jared atlanta wants to equip this one with an electric motor too. he has a plan for his family, get my father one source of sherman, then now is mere fishing. then what of my jewelry saw out of this one? i'm praying, god willing that my children not to be the fishing was so be suited of us for another system does. why now i'm so put in a do cushion provider would additional from bear b if they employ to be can change my, our life. jared aquino has already persuaded some other fishermen to switch to

electric motors. but he and a silvo are still among the pioneers of e mobility and it will take many more like them to see a benefit to like victoria and it's fish. it is an encouraging start setting, a good example and spreading the wide ease of great, which is part of positive change for the environment. absolutely. sandra. other have another example of that from england. the tall somberly. those that cows don't do supply else with meta milk. the, our digestive process emits lots of the greenhouse gas methane after trying out various ways to reduce those emissions. they've come up with a promising solution. close exude a certain com. they're also very intelligent and a key source of food for humanity. john and edward towers have

a special bond with these animals. father and son are dairy farmers in northern england. their only concern is that they cows produce large quantities of me thing, a potent greenhouse gas wheaton solve the problems that we've got with in the industry. and it's affecting upon and a bad way. we can't produce milk and people can drink milk. we need to solve these problems as an industry for industry to carry on because it is not serving upon it well with some of it. there is some 1500000000 cows on the planet. they produce a 3rd of the world's methane emissions, mainly through their belching. this makes them a climate hazard. so the towers are experimenting with a new type of feed supplement made from garlic and citrus. it influences enzymes in the cow stomach and in testing ah, the result is astonishing. the count, the mit left,

me think the toe is received regular visits from other farmers and agricultural experts like these representatives from a life stop auction house. the. i always want their visitors to recommend the new product so that more farmers can reduce their carbon trip. print is about 50 percent of most farms. carbon footprint is that, and sorry, i'm a fellow machine, so it would then knock your, in fact, the knock our product down by about 15 percent in terms of the overall carbon footprint. this is the comment we're, we've been feeding. so the gal histories that shot is fairly strong smelling and if you want to have a low with, they don't get too close, go, so i'll knock your socks off, but clearly the mill tentative stick cow's milk, such as soy oat, an almond milk have been gaining popularity in recent years. that's

a trend. the towers find very concerning. their family has lived in lancashire, for centuries. farmers, he is say the soil is too poor for most crops, but perfect for girls to graze on. protecting the air is something farmer john towers sees as his special responsibility a fail. i'm very fortunate to be working with the younger generation of my family who are probably more foresighted than i am. and they could see the change coming faster than i could see. common, and they've driven our business in that direction to face the challenge and to adapt our market to what our consumer is actually looking for. feeding the garlic supplements to their $400.00 pounds cost. the tower is about $20000.00

a year right here. it's how is that the milk will be a part of emissions trading and future, allowing pharmacy to offset the additional costs. he has many more plans for the future. i want to put solid panels on and i want to have electric charges and i want to, you know, have a, have a. busy carvel again, so that i can capture the mayfair and use it for instructors only things cost money . and if we do them all at once, run out of cash. and then we are a terrible example. even in all of them ideas we're going to work. and so it's a case if sometimes raining in your ambitions or making sure you got partnerships with other companies also have the same kind of values issue. john tao is says many farm is an old school. i'm reluctant to change, but father and son aim to do everything in their power to make other dairy farmers more climate conscious. and they have one good argument in their favor. then milk doesn't taste if gornick a tool according to the european statistical

office, the average european generator just shy of 180 killers of pocket and waste in 2019 figures varied from each country of course, as the the rate of recycling. in many places, a big contributor to the waste heat comes from the food to lever sector. but business is a starting to take a proactive approach to the issue. here is the 6 doing your big bah peter boxes, beverage cubs, and other takeaway trash spill out of the way, spent in many cities. it's a huge burden on the environment because next to none of it can be recycled. 770 tons of such packaging is tossed that every day in germany alone. but some restaurants and stirrups have started providing customers with reusable

alternatives. our regular customers love it. they pay us more deposit, get their food ready to serve and bring back the terms the next day, circling and elsewhere. both containers, like these can be both for feed via an app. after you use customers have up to 14 days to return them. they have to account yet, minute the manufacturer guarantees 200 cycles meet moves when they get worn out their recycled into a new material here at a grocery store in cologne. and ab releases a bowl from a dispenser which customers can fill up for themselves, only the content await and paid for. after being returned to a collection point, the containers are picked up and taken to the clean the for now initiatives like these a voluntary but very safe to change. as of next year, restaurants and cafes in germany will be required to offer their customers reusable

containers for food and beverages. mm hm. and how about you? if you are also doing your bid, tell us about it, visit our website, or send us a tweet. hash tag doing your bit. we share your stories that you and word food program says that somalia faces the very real risk of famine in the common months. drought conditions in the whole of africa have grown ever worse. over the past 3 years, millions of large storks of perished in somalia. 30 percent of households have lost their herds since mid 2021. even hardy heat resistant carmel said, died. now some hurt us. i had in for some aaliyah's biggest city in the hopes of saving them. it is breakfast time in the bed are coming farm on the outskirts of

the somali capital mogadishu, one or 2 animals, have found something to chew on, but they are all pretty hungry. all eyes are on the activity at the edge of the enclosure, in the heaps of freshly cut grass leaves, and 3 tis to morsels for the english, but also vital to their health. these nothing to graze on the cindy ground, a sun abdulla man. so b a is the fund manager, a head this size typically is more room to room, but space here is limited. there are a lot of the regularly or are color you face so many challenges when you bring candles to the city, gentle or not. and also how does the animals need to be trained to leave on the small area tobar. so that requires a lot of patience and experience the all. the other challenges are finding enough food for the candles in the city and ensuring the are provided that things build

geared from the does it see the nerve who we are all, all high. finally, the gate is opened year in the enclosure that is more than enough for if one that wasn't always the case when they had had to scrounge for food out on the open plains just as camels here have done for centuries. a woodland king. good already, my dear, when the draught struck the countryside where camels traditionally leave, there was nothing to graze on and a short fall offering. it forced us to move our animals here to the city. all sir, laggard, no answer hurriedly. so malia is one of the country's heat, particularly hard by climate change. persistent drought is slowly destroying the traditional grazing length. the vegetation is dying back, and water holes are drying out even camels, which can survive long stretches on very little a dying from thirst or hunger. the despair felt bear who st. ibrahim was seen in

other head as is going by the day their flocks are shrinking. become old simply cannot find enough to eat in the bushland off the lot of billy ridge in eastern somalia and only february we had us talk a lot about how to get our candles away from here and find new grazing areas because it hasn't rained in. so long drought is everywhere. if it gets worse and we can't be dar camel's, we'll have to abandon them and go to the city to civil children and ourselves. carry on the milan. many somalis are moving to the capital to escape the effects of climate change. mogadishu population has doubled, 2400000 people over the last 20 years. it was in that growing market that her son abdulla months abriya recognized in opportunity soft al kilowatt in burn core dotcom. another reason brought us camels to the city is to provide fresh milk to the people who live in mogadishu and its surrounding areas. in the past,

people have to go to law areas to get it on our now we can deliver it freshly, milt right here in the ne board annual about his own obama and on his looking is done every day in the bed, a camel from much to the displeasure of the young calls, but business takes precedence was either ariellas, logo halligan, salvador, we sell one liter of all come milk for $2.00. and i saw how the album, my head also the i tie, we normally produce 900 to 1000 liters of common milk every day of school day 9 on plane on by the lawyer. hey, allison. normally, if demand is high, we increase all new production to meet the needs of our customers and clean on layla come later said al, am all the other, the fresh milk if immediately loaded up and taken to the city. restaurants in hotels are important. customers come milk is very nutritious impact with vitamins

making popular, not just in somalia with business who me the better camel from can afford to buy concentrate feeds for the animals. it's an important way of making up for drought related food shortages. being the camels to the city, his turned out to be a good move, but not everyone can afford to do the same. so instead, was st. ibrahim, or same plans to follow his camels in the hope of finding enough food in water elsewhere, or from somali on the east coast without hurts to the west coast. and the cumbia, the smallest country in midland africa there 2 people are struggling to adapt to climate change. well, drought ease a major problem in many areas, people who leave any rivers may seem fortunate, but increasing me salt water is sipping into fresh water sources. which of course

disrupt the natural ecosystem and even the ability to farm basic crops. now one initiative is bringing together scientists and the local people to make a very big difference. oh, good. when we think every change is carefully noted in each week cardiac to clarity and at the see not david davis collect environmental data from the aquatic, an terrestrial ecosystems in 6 locations along the gumbo river. right now i'm recording the parameters we have here, which is their temperature humidity, the wind speed, the wind chill, the air pressure, altitude, do point, and the wind direction. the effects of climate change are causing hardship for many who live near the river. for centuries,

they have subsisted on small scale fishing and farming man groups, which will to salt out of the water made that possible, but duty to rise and sea level and extensive droughts. the reverse salt content got so high, it's killed many cheese. that's been disastrous for farmers like fat to mata barrow ha car, florida. we used to harvest rice here down, but now the yield is low am would when the among goose were healthy, nowhere no problems are on them but they are now dead. and our crops are not doing well when they, when enroll, monitor not a lot of research has been done on bio diversity, india varmints in the gumbo. so that makes predict the impact climate change might have on local ecosystems. more difficult. that inspired 10 young scientists to launch the gems initiative. jazz is an acronym program, their environmental measurement systems project,

and it is the research project whereby we're collecting environmental data along that of a gamez. understand this is not an yellow fluctuations happening. but what's away is almost 1200 kilometers long. so the institutes rely on the support of community based groups and locals, like c double a journalist by trade double works as a citizen scientist, 20 kilometers from the capital. by jewel, my role as it citizen and the other collector is to collect data and then send to them every week and also to in some students along with me to also be gone, know how to collect data. i decide to participate in this program because if you look at this area, you will see that it's already dead. here in the law river division, the die back is extensive. mangrove stamps thought am otherwise empty landscape, live in the coastline exposed. it's no longer possible to maintain fills through title irrigation from the river. the loss of the man groups also means

a loss of habitat and beating ground for fish and other aquatic life. the fresh water fish have moved further upstream with the help of international and deals and volunteers and seminar double hopes to restore the mongol forest. but. ready with a different, more robust variety thanks that he did as we collect regressing shoot, we are been able to know the salinity level of, of the water and secondary. i've been able to identify a dispute, this of mangrove re half. we didn't know ecosystem. they observe a lot of sort a lag before wendy. i was north 30 salt into sunnyside. but now how is demario? those are sort of torah label the absolve, let or so that has made a decrease in salinity level, which andy woman rise for too much

a barrel. who has been gwin rice here for 20 years? halston newly planted red. mangroves will give her crops a fighting chance. y'all, well, we thank god, what a new man gross along the river, asked a grueling less salt. we'll get through gardening along and wound it since august 2021. more than a 150000 mongrels have been planted in the gum down river delta. in order to concept ecosystem. the symbiosis of scientific knowledge and local engagement. as barren fruits. quality water is indispensable, and is fisher to life as other people who walk hard to protect it. that is all for this edition of equal africa, it is time for me to bid you farewell from counselor. i am sandra twin odeo, and i would definitely be seeing you again next week. and i was just like to remind you that vase and other additions of a co africa can be viewed online,

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